Weiss wrote yesterday: "But two Brit Tzedekish members of the audience for that session asked questions that were non-Zionist. One questioned the idea of a Jewish state. I was grateful to them."
Lisa Kosowski writes today:
I am the person in the Human/Civil Rights session who asked what does a Jewish State mean, and if it means a Jewish majority, how is it possible to preserve a Jewish State and still work for human/civil rights in Israel within that context? I appreciate your acknowledgement, but I have to correct something. You implied that I was a member of Brit Tzedek. Although I believe Brit Tzedek is a fine organization that I do support, I’m somewhat left of Brit Tzedek and my primary affiliation is the Arab Jewish Partnership for Peace and Justice in the Middle East. (I’ve been on the coordinating committee for the last two years or so).
While humanism is a wonderful value, and I can see how “equal rights” could be the defining spirit of humanism, human beings DO associate.
To imagine that a non-nationalist political entity affords more equal rights than two national societies, is a tension at least.
The jurisdiction and community that is self-governed is CHOSEN, optimized.
You seem to be making a perfectly wonderful case for the Palestinian refugees to be allowed to return home and be given full voting rights in their homeland, Witty. And here I thought you hated the one-state solution!